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Scientists measured microplastic concentrations in the highly productive Barents Sea and suggest that ocean circulation, ice melt, tourism, inadequate waste management, shipping and fishing are all likely contributors.
The world may have crossed a “tipping point” that will inevitably make solar power our main source of energy, new research suggests.
A bacterium found in the sea can degrade a plastic that otherwise resists microbial breakdown in marine environments.
Now is the time to identify the conditions that cause plants to die.
Surface ice in Greenland has been melting at an increasing rate in recent decades, while the trend in Antarctica has moved in the opposite direction, according to researchers at the University of California, Irvine and Utrecht University in the Netherlands.
Continuing the temperature trend from this summer, September 2023 was the hottest September on record, according to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).
